the international atomic agency chief makes his first visit to japan's crippled nuclear plant as the country's nuclear nightmare continues for months after the devastating earthquake and tsunami. countdown to crisis president obama appealed to the public to pressure congress into a compromise over its debt ceiling with just a week before potential default. top north korean diplomats invited to the u.s. for talks and resuming stalled nuclear disarmament it was just days after and boys from both sides met for the first time in two years.

i am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me joshua welcome to the program the head of the international atomic watchdog is visiting japan's fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since march as devastating earthquake and tsunami you can model as promised to help with the recovery effort i will meet the country's prime minister to discuss what aid is needed as well as killing thousands the natural disasters caused the plant's reactor cores to melt and leak dangerous amounts of radiation into the environment but the i.a.e.a. chief says the workers at the plants are capable of bringing the leak under control by early next year as planned residents evacuated from the town close to the area how the delight of them going off for the dead and missing on the radiator no ma'am . but even manny of those who survived are struggling with their own nuclear

nightmare artist john thomas explains. a triple disaster on a scale the world has never known causing damage destruction and uncertainty forcing tens of thousands of japanese refugees to leave their lives behind and seek shelter anywhere they can some people do. the bucket but but the problem is the minority they be they have been accused. classmates or you know of course by offshore. causing. found that. if not. they'll primarily a move towards self-preservation this idea of desertion is defined by many as characteristically in japanese and has earned it those who have evacuated the dishonorable title of traitor. of course it's hard to hear that we have family

members i think about our health but in other words we run away we escape because we're scared of ideation that there's no example in the world of something similar and the consequences are still ongoing. while those who have moved to shelters here in tokyo are facing that guilt and the pressure to move back home there are others who have lost everything cannot handle the overwhelming change and they are facing even darker vehemence japan already has one of the highest suicide rates in the world and following the disaster in march the government has issued a warning about a possible nationwide epidemic of depression here. organic farmers commit suicide because the organic. soil is everything they saw in full after many. just contaminated one night to go so. far it's inside out i'm very sad to hear the

news. many other farmers are also very much depressed a recent national survey in japan performed by dr roshini and his team shows that suicide rates in japan have in fact increased in the months since the disaster compared to the same timeframe in the previous ten years but the demographics are not what you might expect. increase. in the. center but the fear of years because survivors struggling to. if they have not had to mix inside this disaster has certainly taken its toll on japan's economy and such constant reminders of an intense topic can harm the collective psyche of the people who live here as well because of the. tsunami disaster plus there

is just that many people actually lost their jobs or their working on the show has crashed. so. yeah they have a for many a good reason to commit suicide causing japan's death toll to keep rising even though the initial disaster subsided months before in japan sean thomas forty. coming out here in r t syria get serious about political freedom yes whether it's a gesture by president asif government health and ongoing violence or helping hold on to power. president barack obama has turned to the public for help in pushing through a deal on instead he wants americans to put pressure on congress to find a compromise and a televised national address you warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling will cause incalculable economic damage boggling republicans for the house of representatives for the lack of a deal to avoid u.s. national default congress just

a week to raise fourteen point three trillion dollars debt limit before it runs out of money risking a downgrade of its credit would mean higher interest rates republicans and democrats in the log dispute over whether spending cuts or tax hikes is the answer to the debt crisis by asking about a senior editor at the capital research center says the government needs to raise its borrowing limit and keep on spending. obama and the democrats in congress just want to keep on spending. and so they would like to see that ceiling raised so that they can continue to give rewards to their supporters among the labor unions of the various political organizations that are sympathetic to the democratic party's cause the u.s. is able to keep raising its debt ceiling because people investors around the world have confidence in the united states they believe that the u.s.

government will honor its outstanding obligations and so as long as people have faith in the investors had faith in the u.s. government in its credit worthiness then the u.s. could keep raising its debt ceiling the problem right now is that the debt is so high that that in itself is starting to become a negative factor that could lead to a credit rating downgrade of the united states government if china loses confidence in. america the american government's ability to pay its debts then the u.s. will have nowhere to run to the u.s. would be only the only choice it would have would be to keep printing money to inflate the currency run the printing presses and risk devastating hyperinflation so that's about the only now or the u.s. government would have to drastically cut spending and implement pretty severe

austerity measures. asking random senior editor at the top of the research center from washington d.c. . well mostly called in development on to the american financial center on our web site so we can go to the latest updates and videos all of america counts down days until the fall and wall street high flyers are bracing themselves for a rock in the rye. this life is a joke in its. that's going to sweet really is going to get it. while others say that you asked are choosing to ignore the problem by dressing other superheroes and attending the annual comic con on the bench. a senior north korean diplomat has been invited to new york in atlanta reviving

long stalled talks over his country's controversial nuclear program discussion has been suspended since two thousand and nine the moves come just days after a top and always from the two countries sat together the first time in over two years on the sidelines of security summit in indonesia there they agreed to renew the six party talks over plan yang's atomic ambitions however the u.s. secretary of state says before any deal can be agreed north korea must first dismantle its nuclear facilities erisa rotten co-founder of the national campaign to end the korean war says america shouldn't stand in a way of a peaceful solution. we forget you know you can reach agreements even with people you have profound differences with the word exercises where we simulate landing two hundred thousand troops and taking over beyond and it pending against other types of attacks only serves to amp it up and certainly change their comments

and expressions from the north don't help either so you have both sides who need to step back and certainly begin to look at peaceful exercises of their relationship there north korea has not indeed as always indicated that for a peace treaty and formalized relations with the united states that it would give up its nuclear weapon capability that has always been on the table and we should be grabbing that as a real opportunity because up more than one hundred fifty countries have normalized relations with the north and we need formal channels to begin to deal with these things like jimmy carter and former ambassadors have been saying and our campaign belong with many others are beginning to help washington move from demonization to engagement which is really necessary for any systematic change. and on the way here in r t why have one when you can have many with a growing number of russian women desperate to tie the knot some are willing to

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stunts on t.v. don't come. watching our t.v. morio processions for the victims of the twin attack on norway have been held across the country over one hundred thousand gathered in the capital to mark the deaths of seventy six people flowers and candles were used to commemorate those massacred and the shooting at an island used camp and the bombing of government buildings and also the man who admitted the atrocities has been charged with terrorism at close quarters hearing and will be held in isolation for four weeks at his very revealing pleaded not guilty saying he wanted to save society from an immigrant's invasion david johnson a.c.m. partners. chicago believes that zero economic troubles increase so too will the popularity of extreme right wing parties. think the financial crisis is going to

make it much more difficult to combat the message of these far right groups in times of economic stress it is distressingly easy for people to look for scapegoats and unfortunately it's human nature to seek out those that look different than us who have different customs that are so i'm very concerned that in the next half decade the financial stresses that all of europe is going to face are going to is going to help these far right groups i am concerned that it is a real trend sadly while economic hardship has not caused this i think it is likely to sasser be what we're seeing and i think that looking at just the scandinavian countries it is actually i'll hang a coral right we're going to gain increasing credence and popularity in the next few years throughout europe which is more worryingly close to almost

a century to approach and we really need to hope that our leaders throughout europe will do more to put these type of caustic ideologies back on the fringes where they belong. now some other top headlines from around the world nato airstrikes have caused a fire at a food storage complex in northern libya the blaze is in the city which is torn between colonel gadhafi forces and the rebels and forty kilometers to the east in opposition held misrata government forces burnt one of the region's major fuel depos the u.n. envoy to arrive in tripoli on tuesday to see the current political situation in the capital. possible has sent forces to its northern border with serbia to enforce an import ban imposed last week the move has led to a rise of ethnic tensions with local serbs resisting the move but we say they have taken control of one of the border crossings but another is being blocked by locals

the ban was to counter service boycott cost of our goods in place since its electoral declaration of independence in two thousand and eight. the un is to make an emergency delivery of food and humanitarian aid to somalia work stream drought has put ten million lives at risk it will be the first airlift since two year ban on international aid was removed by somali militants several weeks ago on wednesday un representatives will attend the conference and can find ways to raise one point six billion dollars in aid over the next year. most has passed as a story law allowing couples to divorce in their own country it will take effect from a coworker after the president signs it off mulder was the only country with divorce legislation and couples have to travel abroad or apply for an element through the courts or church taking up to nine years their vote is a blow to the ruling nationalist party which opposes divorce. syria's government

has adopted a draft law. created it could end domination by president austin's ruling party opposition groups have been banned since the military coup nine hundred sixty three the law is part of reforms promised by president aza to put an end to more than four months of protests against his government over fifteen hundred civilians thousands more detained since uprisings began in march however political theories benjamin barber. nothing more than an ancestor. it is not anything but formal and technical change the reality is this government cannot afford to have a genuine multi party. approach because the parties that will be empowered powers that want to. rule and the end of bashar assad you know the words if they do more than just a formality it will lead to the fall of government so i do not believe that this is

anything more than a. stall for a while. i do not believe to multi party democracy and i do not believe that in the end it is going to stop the uprising in a meaningful way i would suggest that the united states and the western powers are hypocritical they talk about change but of course they haven't really put any pressure. on syria of the kind that they have put on libya for example and i don't see any nato warplanes preventing civilian casualties i don't see anyone really moving to look for an alternative the fact is the west doesn't like the shah but he is the known evil and i think they're very worried about what the unknown alternative might look like so i suspect that while they will continue to posture in public and. the regime that they will. little actually remove

assad he knows that and therefore he will make some nice noises about multi-party democracy and about accommodation but in reality he will hang tough and i believe that very little change. in british ministry of the fans has apologized after one of its attack helicopters wounded five children by mistake in afghanistan according to you and the number of civilians killed by nato airstrikes has gone up with the death toll this year alone standing at seventy nine anti-war activists lindsey german things it's time for the alliance to admit the failure of its campaign. i think it will just convince more people in afghanistan that the war isn't helping them but it is actually killing and injuring more and more people so isn't working isn't going to work when you have a war where the risk of growing insurgency will play all sorts of people who are

victims of this and children are obviously one of the worst of the casualties the only solution to this is to sell you a war isn't working it has there is absolutely no justification for nato forces to be there and that they should withdraw the troops this is now coming up to the tenth anniversary of the war and there is absolutely no question that this war is not getting better it is getting worse it is almost certain that whatever settlement eventually comes in afghanistan it will involve the taliban in some capacity nearly everybody now recognizes this so what is the point of continuing this war the point of continuing this war is because the americans and the british and their allies cannot admit defeat in the second country are to what happened in iraq that is why they're there they are there in order to prop up a government that they have no real confidence in but they are there in order to save their own faces they are there to protect their interests they're not there to

protect the ordinary afghans and in this week. german ran a stop the war coalition air now when it comes to the dating game in russia it's really a man's world and there are ten million more women than men in the country forcing some to turn to unconventional methods to find love in a bad means of their house is more like several better cars are the single various international reports. i meet him dream and father of three and husband of three and of days ago and drake got buried two years on he proposed again and then again. why should i refuse any of them if i love them all really why the country's demographic realities andree side according to the latest census there are ten million more women in russia than there are mean a shortage of supply leads to the need for sharing a concept and raise wise say they've made peace with their worth i thought he was

kidding but then realized that he wasn't i never expected something like this happening to me but we've all got used to it you know if you love you'll understand we're never fight for andre never quarrel there is no any kind of competition either. and really considers himself an ardent christian yet to his wife who brought up muslims the distribution of duties and conjugal delights within the household also lies in the islamic traditions. of the ceramic with what i make the move feel equal and one wants me to buy her something i will but i'll buy something of the same price for the other two as world little three houses and three apartments that's fair isn't it over. as extraordinary as it seems andries example is not that rare in russia many men are in relationships with several women at the time most to keep their extramarital affairs secret. and the and the more numerous these may look strange i agree which we consider it better to be

a second or third wife rather than think you are the only one and babies really mistaken the scarcity of man is also be down to their propensity to gauge in what's described as unhealthy behavior alcoholism and reckless driving is cheap in a way i think countries who let me tell you my story twenty eight years old reasonably smart fairly pretty and very compassionate yet i'm still single and my odds of trying to nor to get since leave out every year according to recent poll here in russia forever single man over thirty there are thousand of single women still on the lookout for their brains their wounds search for true love becoming sophisticate challenging no wonder always a wondering of rules and from russia with love is to go in strong. regional shanty moscow. brian may is best known as a guitarist and songwriter for

a legendary rock band queen but he is also an astrophysicist and the chancellor of the british university a little later this hour we ask dr may what makes science and music sing and harmony. the hard question. yeah obviously there are mathematical things in music but ironically i think the most important things are using things thinking things so i don't equate how that works out except maybe gives your balance but yes i love pure science and i love music and they're not the same sure but. certainly throughout history there have been connections who are immersed in both from the united. patrick moore you know. it seems to be that we maybe it's an obstruction thing maybe people who like these things going to like the clutter of the world the complications of the world that we're living you know the pieces of stuff and you just like to find the

essence of roy and maybe pure science is in some way close to the essence of nature and you think it's close to your essence of human being. and that in three already come your way very shortly before you go we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business with dmitri. good morning and welcome to the business update on our elisa nell group and germany's your half of the finishing touches to the new laws in siberia the foreign energy giants other leading investors in russia's liberalized market building more new capacity even russian firms the telefonica has. the generators are turning creating much needed electricity last year power companies built a record for gigawatts of capacity enough to power a quarter of moscow and its foreign firms which provided the lion's share of the

investment and major maestro never ready because. the market is the ground law is that the reason regulatory frame our credit our markets our capacity the and then are g.e. what we wish is to progress with this in making it more functional me russia opened its power sector four years ago privatizing most generating capacity during the crisis some russian firms failed to me the investment obligations while foreigners increased their market share for mass on nine percent of capacity. but they commissioned seventy eight percent of new units generators are now asking regulators for predictability this year the russian government's current price rises to fifteen percent we generate a sale lost the millions but that hasn't stopped the flaking off switches probably

the good thing not the thing you do great doesn't sell promising for you that all the more in return for more gigawatts they tell the people the business our team. from gigawatts to crude oil is trading year to date but no one else offer us present one the country's debt deadlock freds a damage to the u.s. economy and therefore the world's largest crude consumer may start demanding less world. record stock markets now in asia they are higher so curious stocks are up with financials reaping the most is from the session a submission financial group is adding three quarters of a percent this count on is that they convert the two percent after hiking the forecast for this year and gains in hong kong which is up around one percent and that by the bank. are moscow two hours still ahead of the opening bell on monday the russian markets finished flat next and the majors were under selling pressure on the food prices but gold miners surged on higher demand for precious metals.

all russian equities of struggle to continue last week's good performance you can get your eyes of the capital says all eyes on whether the u.s. can conjure up a plan to solve its that situation. well the markets are still waiting for a decision on the u.s. debt deal so we do have all of the lawmakers will come to some definite solution because the worst half of the market is that no one is no one knows what's going to happen on all goosed when actually there were some deadline for who has got a deal. also people are expecting crucial friday data on the u.s. economy really burned grass roots expect tens of years g.d.p. to advance by one point eight percent but also people expect some slowdown in the consumer spending all in all we're waiting for two issues three s. macro economic data which will inflows all the markets across the world and also the u.s. . and i will be back in fifty minutes time with

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